Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: AW: More UB-Tree patent information]

From: postgresql(at)fruru(dot)com
To: justin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: AW: More UB-Tree patent information]
Date: 2002-04-10 21:07:49
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0204102305520.7682-100000@perycles.unix.be.EU.org
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
> Have you found out _what_ exaclty is patented ?
>
> Is it just his concrete implementation of "UB-Tree" or something
> broader, like using one multi-dimensional index instead of multiple
> one-dimensional ones ?

(I know it is OT, please reply in private, I can summarize any reactions
to the list ...)

Patents are supposed to be only applicable to an industrial application
(with external side-effects). So ideas in themselves are not patentable.

Anyway, this is once more a good example of the danger of software patents
- you know what to reply when people say "software patents promote
innovation"

IANAL, just my 0,02 Euro.

see also : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/savingeurope.html (also
interesting for non-europeans, of course !)

--
Tycho Fruru tycho(dot)fruru(at)conostix(dot)com
"Prediction is extremely difficult. Especially about the future."
- Niels Bohr

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